Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-04-13
HISTORY OF THE WEEK.

Axtell, preached upon the Power Of Little
Things. Before the ~astonished congregation
midst Of an address upon the Importance Of
apparently trivial circumstances when
rightly viewed. As the train robber convic-
ton depends largely upon circumstantial
evidence the surprise was great, but DIR.
Axtell proceeded to tell how a celebrated
years by a ~tell-tale scrap Of paper. A torn
check figures largely in the Rock Island
case, and much feeling was expressed after
the services at the singular remarks Of
the preacher; The attorneys for Swartz
and Watt will demand a new trial for their
clients Of the ground of undue influence
upon the jury If the prisoners are con-
kilograms We're sent from Fort Glib
son. Indian Territory, April s, showing that
MI. Blaine visiting his daughter there, was
ceived by the Associated Press at st. Louis,
atS:3O p. m, Friday from the Command
ant of the post at Fort Gibson: Mr.. Blaine
is suffering from bronchial catarTh, with fe-
yer of remittent type. He sleeps we'll and
has no typhoid symptoms: His respiration
information from Fort Gibson is thu that MT Mr..
Blaine was quite Mnwen when the train ar
rived at Gibson station on Sunday night;
that he, did mot go over to the fort until the
next day; that he has been i'll with a bad
cold since then, but that he will leave for
where he will so nor what his future move
| ments will be.
At the Interstate Commerce Com
mission on Thursday, upon petition of the De-
troit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee r. r.. sus-
pended the long and short haul clause of the
actor 90days in 50 far as it applies to traffic
take1across Lake Michigan to Grand Haven
and destined to points east of Detroit and
St. Clair rivers, upon similar conditions to
those granted the Southern Railway g.
Steamship Association. An application
of the steamship lines and the merchants
of Boston to authorize the trunk lines of
railroads from Chicago to Boston to con-
tinue the expert trade on the same basis as
heretofore, giving equal rates with New
York IN oil merchandise exported, has
been referred to Commissioned Walker for
investigation, who has gone to Boston for
that purpose.
For some time past r. M. Hayes,
editor of the Globe and proprietor of the
stationery store at Hagerstown, Maryland,
has been annoyed by. petty
stealing from the store. He suspected A.
L.. Bowser, who had been in his employ 10
years. Tuesday night he and a companion
AAS % Ill III SUO1C.= wi Ii
o'clock they saw Bowser enter from the
printing office adjoining and extract the
contents of the cash drawer. Hayes struck
a light and called on the robber to sur.
render, when Bowser drew a revolver and
shot himself through the head, dying
almost instantly. Bowser, who was much
respected, leaves a wife and three children.
At the city election in Chicago on
the 9Th, the Carter Harrison-socialistic
combine was defeated by a union of Re-
publicans and Democrats upon the ticket
nominated by the Republicans with John
A. Roche for Mayor. The total vCte for
Mayor, was Roche, Rep, 51,OS9; Nelso1,
socialist, z2,S47; Roche's majority 2S,24l.
The labor party elected one alderman in
the 5th ward and the Democrats their can
didate for alderman in the second ward.
The Democratic candidate for assessor in
the North Town was elected, with these
exceptions the Republicans elected all their
tickets,
In the United States Circuit Court at
Chicago, on Monday, Judge Gresham ap-
pointed as the successor Of Judge Cooley,
to be receiver of the Wabash railway lines
lying east Of the Mississippi river. Gen. Nc
Nulta is a lawyer. He at one time had con-
troll of the narrow gauge road running from
st. Louis to Toledo, having been recon-
mended for that trust by the late Judges
David Davis and Treat. He is said to lave
managed the affairs of that corporation
very successfully.
Hon. d. Wyatt Aitken, late repre-
sentative in Congress from South Carolina,
died at Cokesbury, s. c.. April 6, aged
SO. He had been i'll for a long time and q
severe fall received during the Forty-eighth
| T@-~-1co 1o,o111I1l hsc roro@--I * liz
home, which he was unable to leave to at
tend the sessions of the F~orty-ninth Con-
gress. He was for five successive terms
elected to congress. =
On Tuesday last, l.. De S%aulniers
organist of st. Peters Church, Lewiston
| Me-, his wife, a child of three, and a babys
and Mr.. Morton were poisoned by whisky
containing wine of cOichicum, sold De
Saulniers by mistake by DR.. Lerfuge, who
was in charge of q drug store in the absence
| of the proprietor. De Saulniers died Sunday
! His wife's condition is critical. The other.
will recover
The business failures for the last
seven days number for the United States
1913, for Canada IS, total 223, against 223
last week and 215 the corresponding week Of
last year. Failures in all sections of the
COuuGTy dlo dDOut up W Iuo dNcIdSo,
except in New York city, where the assign
ments number only six, which were un
important.
Theatrical people are greatly ex-
cited at the advanced cost imposed on them
by tie Interstate Commerce law, in extra
baggage and transportation charges, and
will ask tho Commission to suspend, for
this season, the operation CT the law, which,
as interpreted by the railroads brings great
hardship on them. b
Ninety of the 800 contractors and
employing carpenters Of Chicago agreed to
the terms demanded by the carpenters
union, IS cents an hour and eight hours to
constitute q day, but the men say they will
not return to work until at least a majority
of the employers agree to their terms.
For twelve hours on Monday, April
4, the heaviest snow storm Of the season,
accompanied by a fierce northwest wind,
prevailed ali over the upper Michigan
peninsula. From Is to 10 inches Of 10Y
fell on the level and trains on all roads were
delayed.
The latest returns from Michigan
81 hour tho o1ocfinn re tho Rop,b1inan atafe